Creating an Organizational Replication Policy

Constraints

• You can only apply replication policies to server backup vaults, SFS Turbo backup vaults, and hybrid cloud backup vaults.
• A maximum of 64 organizational replication policies can be created in each account.

Procedure

1. Log in to the CBR console.
   1. Log in to the management console.
   2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region.
   3. Click and choose Storage > Cloud Backup and Recovery. Select the corresponding backup type from the navigation pane.

2. Choose Organizational Policies in the navigation pane and click the Organizational Replication Policies tab. In the upper right corner, click Create Organizational Policy. Select Replication for Organizational Policy Type.
   Figure 1 Creating an organizational policy

   

3. Set the replication policy parameters. Table 1 describes the parameters.

   Table 1 Replication policy parameters

   Parameter	Description	Example Value
   Organizational Policy Name	Organizational policy name A name must contain 1 to 64 characters including digits, letters, underscores (_), or hyphens (-).	org_policy
   Organizational Policy Description	Description that can help the organization members to understand the usage of the policy.	/
   Organizational Policy Type	Select a policy type. In this section, we select Replication.	Replication
   Policy Name	Replication policy name You can enter a custom name or use the default name policy_xxxx. A name must contain 1 to 64 characters including digits, letters, underscores (_), or hyphens (-).	replication_policy
   Status	Whether to enable the replication policy By default, this function is enabled. CBR replicates backups and deletes expired replicas only after a replication policy is enabled and applied to vaults.	Enabled
   Replication Frequency	Select a replication frequency. By default, the replication task is executed automatically every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Weekly Specifies on which days of each week the replication task will be executed. You can select multiple days. Day-based Specifies the interval (every 1 to 30 days) for executing the replication task. If you select day-based replication, the first replication is supposed to be executed on the day when the replication policy is created. If the replication policy is created after the replication time, the first replication will be executed in the next replication period.	Every day
   Execution Time	Execution times of the replication policy in a day The default replication time is 22:00. Replication tasks can be scheduled at the beginning of each hour, and you can select multiple hours. It is recommended that replication be performed during off-peak hours or when no services are running.	00:00, 02:00
   Retention Rule	Rule that specifies how backup replicas will be retained in the destination region By default, backup replicas are retained for one month. Backup quantity You can set the maximum number of backup replicas to retain for each resource. The value ranges from 2 to 99999. You can also set long-term retention rules with advanced options. Long-term retention rules and quantity-based retention rules will be both applied. Day-based: 0–100 Weekly: 0–100 Monthly: 0–100 Yearly: 0–100 A resource may be replicated multiple times in a day. If day-based replication is configured, only the most recent backup replica of that day is retained. If you set Day-based to 5, the most recent backup replica of each of the last five days that have backups generated will be retained and the earliest backup replicas will be deleted automatically. If day-based, weekly, monthly, and yearly retention rules are all configured, all the rules will apply and the union set of backup replicas will be retained. For example, if Day-based is set to 5 and Weekly to 1, five backup replicas will be retained. The long-term retention rule and the quantity-based retention rule both apply. Time period You can choose to retain backup replicas for one month, three months, six months, one year, or for any desired number (2 to 99999) of days. Permanent NOTE: The system automatically deletes the earliest and expired backup replicas every other day to avoid exceeding the maximum number of backup replicas to retain or retaining any backup replica longer than the maximum retention period. There will be delays for CBR to delete expired backup replicas, but normally these delays will not be over 24 hours. The retention rules apply only to auto-generated backup replicas, but not manual ones. Manual backup replicas need to be deleted manually. After a backup replica is used to create an image, the replica will not be deleted by the retention rule.	6 months
   Destination Region	Region to which backups are replicated Only the regions that support replication will be displayed. For details about the supported regions, see Table 1. If the selected region contains only one project, you can directly select the region name. If the selected region has multiple projects, the default project of the region is preselected. You can select another project if needed.	AP-Bangkok

4. Click Create Now.

   After the replication policy is created, it will automatically appear in each member account's policy list. Users with the member accounts can view the created policies in Organizational Policies on the CBR console.

Follow-Up Operations

• Modifying a Policy
• Deleting a Policy